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The Hizz Collective: acoustic disruption and claiming space in the Cairo soundscape
ABSTRACT This paper examines Hizz, a collective started in Cairo, Egypt, that acts as record label, venue, gallery and artist residency. Through analysing the music that Hizz produces, its spaces and distribution methods, its organisation as a collective, and its international connections, it argues that Hizz creates new forms of social engagement and defiant politics in Cairo, thereby disrupting engrained aesthetic and social patterns. Hizz reflects a post-revolution creativity, pitted against an authoritarian regime and an elitist neo-liberal dance music scene. The aesthetic of Hizz incorporates ambient, noise and post-punk, Sufi mawlid music, mahraganat, and chaabi, in a way that enacts a conversation between different sonic elements in their surroundings. Such local relevance sees Hizz defying the strict class boundaries that define Egyptian society. This paper combines two years of field work in Cairo following the Hizz collective since their inception in 2017, further interviews, and literature on sound and space.
期刊介绍:
Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.